ABOUT THE BOOK
EVERGREEN:
The Trees That Shaped America
On the heels of his well-praised memoir
Little and Often, named a USA TODAY best book of the year, Cornell University professor
Trent Preszler
returns with a deep dive into America’s energy source in its rise to global superpower: the evergreen. In
EVERGREEN: The Trees That Shaped America
(Publication Date: December 2nd, 2025; $29.00), Preszler explains what it means to live in a world where the evergreen is both tangible and symbolic, synthetic and authentic, a stalwart bystander throughout centuries of human ambition.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Trent Preszler is a professor of practice in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University and director of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation’s Planetary Solutions Initiative. His first book, Little and Often: A Memoir, hit #1 on the Amazon Books Best Seller list and was named a USA Today Best Book of the Year in 2021. His second book, Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America, was longlisted for the 2026 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
Preszler grew up on a cattle ranch in South Dakota and attended a one-room schoolhouse on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. After college at Iowa State University, he served as a White House intern for President Bill Clinton. He holds an MS in agricultural economics and a PhD in horticultural biology from Cornell University.
A former winemaker and wooden boatbuilder, Preszler’s life was profiled in a documentary that won a New York Emmy Award in 2017.
